THE ROMANS AND THE FRANKS

Chapter:

CHAPTER 1 The Curtain Goes Up

Source:

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

Late in the year 753, Pope Stephen II, accompanied by a large retinue of cardinals and bishops, did something no previous
Roman pope had done. He crossed the Alps and paid a visit to Pepin III, known as Pepin the Short, the king of the Franks.
They met on 6 January 754 at Pepin’s royal estate, located at Ponthion, near the present-day city of Vitry-le-François on
the river Marne, some 95 miles from Paris in what is now northeastern France. (France, then the western part of the Frankish
kingdom, went in those days by the Roman name of Gaul; the country’s modern name is derived from that of the people Pepin
ruled.)

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 1 The Curtain Goes Up. In Oxford University Press, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. New York, USA.
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